C. Gary Barnes

Professor of Biblical Counseling

Dr. Barnes is an ordained minister and a licensed psychologist who specializes in
marriage and family research, counseling, and training. After graduating from DTS
he served as an assistant pastor for seven years. While in the New York area he was a
research project coordinator at NYU Medical Center’s Family Studies Clinic and later
completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship through Parkland Hospital (Dallas) and
the Child Guidance Clinics of Dallas and Texoma. His great celebrations of life are his wife, four adult kids
plus three more by marriage, seven grandkids, and bicycle racing.